jvfox

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How Seattle lost the SuperSonics

Posted Mon, Apr 2, 10:36 p.m.

Thank heavens for Frank Chopp to represent taxpayers and prevent misuse of our limited public dollars. There isn't a speaker of the house anywhere in the country that puts low income and working people first over special interests! Goodness its refreshing.

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Article on the Mercer Mess created a lot of false alarms

Posted Tue, Sep 22, 5:45 p.m.

continued from last comment: neighborhoods. And when these taxes were approved and the levy portion of BTG were sold to voters back in 2005, we were told that "only" 30 mil from these sources would go to Mercer. Now we are looking at easily over 100 million more of BTG ...

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Article on the Mercer Mess created a lot of false alarms

Posted Tue, Sep 22, 5:42 p.m.

John Fox here, weighing-in on Vulcan spokesperson Postman’s comments on my Mercer and SLU pieces. I will get to his comments below in a second, but first here also are my comments on SDOT Director Crunican’s piece from yesterday’s Crosscut. Crunican refers to $31 million in private "contributions" for Phase ...

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Mercer Plan has a new price tag: $290 million

Posted Fri, Sep 11, 6:36 p.m.

John Fox here responding to some of the preceding comments especially to those made by “Allie from SDOT”. In no particular order: Allie refers to $31 million in private "contributions" for Phase I now Mercer East – the $190 million portion. These so called “contributions” include monies from the $20 ...

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Fighting the greens-developers juggernaut

Posted Fri, Aug 7, 2:30 p.m.

John Fox here. Just a few responses to my blog critics. Regarding Mr. Bagshaw's claim that his spouse is not bankrolled by downtown interests, over half her contributions - a veritable war chest comes from downtown and Eastside donors(many of whom I recognize in the employ of major downtown corporate ...

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Unsustainable Seattle

Posted Tue, Jun 10, 12:39 a.m.

you don't get it - 1200 units to demolition most rentals...condo's don't replace rentals: Ok you passed econ 101 and yes we saw a net gain in residential units in 2007 but since most 80 percnet of new construction that year was condo, we actually saw a net loss in ...

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Unsustainable Seattle

Posted Mon, Jun 9, 3:39 p.m.

1200 units demolished last year in Seattle: Knute, you've hit the nail on the head. There were 1200 units of lower density affordable housing - including larger single family rentals, duplexes, and older apartments - demolished last year in Seattle to make way for higher density more expensive development. That's ...

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